The mum-of-two was tempted again after a bust-up with her 24-year-old fella Tom Richards on holiday in Majorca.

In a twist that reads like a plotline from the soap, she hoovered up three lines in a club in Magaluf in April.

Worryingly, she has also been taking the drug in secret since then.

She said in an interview with The Sun on Sunday: "I was offered coke and I took it.

"I thought f*** it, I'm going to do it.

"The most frightening thing was I didn't think about it at all, I just f***ing did it and that's probably more scary than planning it."

Despite being filled with self-loathing, 40-year-old Danniella – who played Sam Mitchell in EastEnders – also admitted romping with her drug dealer, adding: "I have cheapened myself and I have cheapened who I am, but that's the direct example of what alcohol and drugs do."

Danniella says she has taken cocaine around half a dozen times in the past four months.

She said she was offered the drug back in the UK – but can't even remember when or where it was.

She says her recent use had been limited to under a gram each time.

She first took cocaine as a 15-year-old school girl in a nightclub – even though she'd never even tried booze.

Danniella says she is terrified of people thinking she is "worthless scum" and blames a tough year for turning to drugs.

She was forced to undergo surgery to have her nasal septum rebuilt after her drug addiction throughout the 1990s and early 2000s caused it to collapse.

By the age of 21 was spending up to £500 a day on cocaine.

She eventually got clean after a stint in rehab in Arizona.

In 2013, Danniella claimed in an interview that she had been kidnapped and gang raped by drug dealers during the period she was addicted.

The born-again Christian split with her second husband Kevin Jenkins last year after more than 10 years of marriage before hooking up with Tom.

But their rocky relationship looked over last week when police were called to their home in Kent and her toy-boy was detained.